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. BOTTLE STOPPER.

No. 343,646. Patented June- 15, 1886.

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

CHARLES L. MOREHOUSE, OF BROOKLYN, ASS-IGNOR, BY. MESNE'ASSIGN- MENTS,TO THE MOREHOUSE BOTTLE STOPPER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 343,646, dated June 15,1886.

Application filed September 11, 1885. Serial No. 176,796. No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, CHARLES L. MORE- HOUSE, of Brooklyn, in the countyof Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedBottle-Stopper, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved combinedinternal and external bottle-stopper which is simple in construction andcloses the bottle effectively.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts anddetails, as will be fully described and set forth hereinafter, and thenpointed out particularly in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, formingpart of thisspecification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a cross-sectional view of a bottle provided with my improvedbottle-stopper, the plug being raised. Fig. 2 is a similar view of thesame, the plug being pressed down.

The bottle-head A is provided in its inner surface with the annulargroove B, having the triangular rabbet O.

The packing-ring D, made of pure rubber, is provided with the flange E ashort distance from the outer circular edge of the ring, and beveledupward and outward, as shown, so that the ring and its flange fit snuglyin the groove B and against its rabbet 0, thus forming an absolutelytight joint. The packingring is beveled downward and inward from the topedge and upward and inward from the bottom ed ge,thebevels beingslightly rounded. A buoyant hard-rubber or other ball-valve,F, is placedin the bottle before the packing-ring is inserted, the said ball beingadapted to fit against the bottom bevel of the packing-ring. The plug G,made of metal or other suitable hard material, is tapered on a roundedline toward its lower end, and has said lower end rounded, and the plugis provided a short distance from its upper end with an annular V-shaped groove, H. A stem, J, projects upward from the top of the plug G,and is provided at its upper end with a handle-piece, K, of greater orless length, which is connected by a chain, L, with a wire vor spring,L,

passed around the bottle-neck M directly below the head A. The plug G issurrounded surface of the cap.

loosely by a soft pure-rubber cap, N, having an aperture in its top, atwhich aperture the said cap fits snugly on the stem J.

The operation is as follows: When the bottle contains a gaseous oreffervescent liquidsuch as, for instance, carbonic-acid water or the,like--the plug-stopper is not used, and

hangs down at the side of the bottle, or is removed. The gas-pressureholds the ball-valve F snugly against the bottom bevel of thepacking-ring D, and thus closes the bottle effectually. For bottlingbeer, wine, and other like liquids, the plug-stopper only is used. Thesaid stopper is pressed into the bottle-head, as shown in Fig. 1, theplug being raised in the rubber cap, and the annular beveled projectionon the inside of the packing-ring resting against the annular grooveformed in the outer Then the plug is pressed down, causing the top bevelof the groove 11 to press the upper part of the cap N against the topbevel of the packing-ring D, and the bottom of the tapered part of theplug pressing the lower part of the cap against the bottom bevel of thepacking-ring, whereby the bottle is closed absolutely tight.

The plug-stopper can be pressed into the bottle or removed from the samevery easily and rapidly.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a bottle provided in the inner surface of itsneck with the annular groove 13, having the triangular rabbet O,

that part of the groove above the rabbet being inclined parallel withthe inner bevel of the top of the neck, and that part of the groovebelow the rabbet being verticalthat is, parallel with the longitudinalaxis of the bottleof the packing-ring D,having its outer surface formedto fit in said groove and against the rabbet,and having its inner sidebeveled from the top downward and inward and from the bottom upward andinward, the lower bevel being on a concave line, whereby a sharpedgedannular ridge is formed on the inner side of said packing ring,substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The combination, with a bottle provided in the inner surface of theneck with the annnlar groove 13, having the triangular l'abbet C, thatpart of the groove above the rabbet being inclined parallel with theinnerbevel of the top of the neclgand that part of the groove below therabbet being vertiealthat is, parallel with the longitudinal axis of thebottle of the packing-ring D,having its outer surface formed to fit insaid groove and against the 1'ahbet,and having its inner side beveledfrom the top downward and inward and from tl1eb0t- 10 tom upward andinward, thelower bevel being in a concave line the plug" G, and cap N,of a corresponding construction with the packingring, substantially asset forth.

CHARLES L. MOREHOUSE. \Vitnesses:

OSCAR F. GUNZ, EDGAR TATE.

